{"id":11117,"date":"2025-03-07T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/narco-gang-gun-battles-kill-22-people-in-violent-ecuador-port-city-of-guayaquil\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:33:40","slug":"narco-gang-gun-battles-kill-22-people-in-violent-ecuador-port-city-of-guayaquil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/narco-gang-gun-battles-kill-22-people-in-violent-ecuador-port-city-of-guayaquil\/","title":{"rendered":"Narco gang gun battles kill 22 people in violent Ecuador port city of Guayaquil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Rival factions of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/ecuador\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ecuadoran<\/a> drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least 22 people dead, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Another three people were wounded in a series of clashes in the city, the local police said in a statement as it increased an earlier toll of 12 dead.<\/p>\n<p>A police source told AFP the gunfights involved opposing factions of a gang called Los Tigerones, one of the most powerful in this formerly peaceful country.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador is home to an estimated 20 criminal gangs involved in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/police-dogs-find-tons-cocaine-hidden-banana-shipment-ecuador\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">drug trafficking<\/a><\/span>, kidnapping and extortion, wreaking havoc in a country of 18 million squeezed between the world&#8217;s biggest cocaine producers, Peru and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Ecuador has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/drug-gangs-ecuador-death-saint-protection-human-sacrifices\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">plunged into violence<\/a><\/span> amid the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use its ports, like Guayaquil, to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"ECUADOR-DRUGS-VIOLENCE \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/a77f8903-fd43-47b2-b15a-e98852b61669\/thumbnail\/620x413\/f42c2677abc0fe7871843a16423dcac8\/gettyimages-2203092421.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/a77f8903-fd43-47b2-b15a-e98852b61669\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/c5eae9ff99e18fd182e8754e055ad5c2\/gettyimages-2203092421.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Women stand on a sidewalk close to a massacre site in Guayaquil, Ecuador on March 6, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                MARCOS PIN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Homicides, for example, have risen from six per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 to a record 47 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the gangs are constantly mutating and growing stronger with profits from crime.<\/p>\n<p>Guayaquil is the capital of Guayas, one of seven provinces where a state of emergency has been in force for the past two months as the government battles the gangsters. In February, clashes between rival criminal groups in Guayaquil <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/narco-gang-clashes-ecuador-14-killed-possible-reprisals\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">claimed the lives of 14 people<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month President Daniel Noboa said he would ask unspecified allied countries to send special forces to help him wage this fight.<\/p>\n<p>The violence is not letting up as Ecuador gears for a runoff election April 13 in which Noboa will face leftist Luisa Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the military said a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ecuador-arrests-los-lobos-leader-targeted-by-us\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">leader of one of Ecuador&#8217;s biggest crime syndicates<\/a><\/span>, Los Lobos, was arrested at his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo. 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